linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] writeback: prevent bandwidth calculation overflow

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Message-ID: <1290096121.2109.1525.camel@laptop>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:02:01 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: prevent bandwidth calculation overflow

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 23:44 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> +               pause = HZ * pages_dirtied / (bw + 1);

Shouldn't that be using something like div64_u64 ?
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